Levelland Gets Multi-Million Dollar Grant
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: June 15, 2009
A multi-million dollar grant is headed to Levelland to help pay for the city's planned industrial rail park.
Levelland landed $3.3 million in federal grant money to construct a 300 acre industrial rail park.
The Levelland Economic Development Corporation hopes to put their plans out for a bid in the next couple of weeks.
Already, one tenant has signed to use the facility and that company, along with the federal grant, will help pay for construction costs.
"It just so happens the stimulus money started coming out and they need 'shovel-ready' projects and we had already done the planning and the engineering all in hopes that some way we could find a way to fund it. So we were lucky enough just to hit the right timing and were able to present them with a project that was 'shovel-ready' and here we are $3.3 million later," Dave Quinn, Director of the LEDC, says.
The entire rail project is expected to cost nearly $12 million.
